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Director: Farkas, Jackie
Year: 1992
Synopsis: A wonderfully quirky fairy tale about a very tall girl who wishes she were small.

Director: Gutman, Amos
Year: 1992
Synopsis: A naive Israeli teenager falls in love with a 30ish HIV-positive musician. Full of illusions and delusions, Jonathon is desparate for love but still smarting from a short-lived affair with his handsome contemporary, Miki. Jonathon's family members—an ex-hippie mother, druggie sister, and straight-as-an-arrow brother—are tolerant, but have problems of their own to confront. Enter the enigmatic Thomas, just back from New York and hiding his medical condition from his constantly bickering mother and grandmother—and also from Jonathon, their downstairs neighbor. "I don't want to get used to something I'll lose tomorrow," Jonathon tells Thomas; he has no idea how high the stakes are in this fateful encounter. A casual yet candid story about love in the age of AIDS, into which Gutman weaves observations of the family, gay relationships, and mortality -- all with amazing grace.

Directors: Kinney, Robert
Kinney, Donald
Year: 1992
Synopsis: Agoraphobia is a neurotic condition in which the individual harbors an intense fear of public places. The true agoraphobe lives in seclusion, hidden from view, closeted from the popular discourse. In the ribald hands of look-alikes Robert and Donald Kinney, known for their twinning adaptations of Stephen and The Maids, this neurotic complex becomes an expansive metaphor for social repression. At a bland Midwestern motel, five desperate people have sought refuge from their hostile surroundings. Crab (Charles Louis), the desk clerk, is a troubled young gay man, suffocating in his small town. In room seven, Swallow (Donald Kinney), an escaped con, takes poorly to his newfound confinement, even though his outlaw lover Jack (Randy Rovans) tries to calm him with affection. In the adjoining room, Katch (Kerry Snyder), just dishonorably discharged from the military, has lost the uniformity that kept her contained; Joy (Tammy Hopkins), her lover, wants to flee the Midwest and enter the ranks of the larger gay community. Using a hyped-up soaper sensibility with some dizzy art direction, the Kinneys have made a punchy drama that depicts social conformity as a subtle brand of psychological incarceration. Agora is the Motel Hell of repressed activity.

Director: Julien, Isaac
Year: 1991
Synopsis: [From IMDB]: "Set in London in 1977, the plot takes place against the background of the Silver Jubilee. This is a buddy movie between two friends Chris and Caz who run a pirate radio station from a tower block in Dalston, East London. The film starts with a murder of their friend TJ while cruising for sex in the local park at night and, while Caz is cut up by the death of his friend, Chris seems to want to push forward towards a professional career in commercial radio. They both want to promote soul music while the prevailing popular music is punk."

Director: Julien, Isaac
Year: 1991
Synopsis: [From IMDB]: "Set in London in 1977, the plot takes place against the background of the Silver Jubilee. This is a buddy movie between two friends Chris and Caz who run a pirate radio station from a tower block in Dalston, East London. The film starts with a murder of their friend TJ while cruising for sex in the local park at night and, while Caz is cut up by the death of his friend, Chris seems to want to push forward towards a professional career in commercial radio. They both want to promote soul music while the prevailing popular music is punk."